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19 January 201926 March 2019

Yakitori

Yakitori means Grilled (“Yaki” 焼き) Chicken or Bird (“Tori” 鳥 ).

It is delicious Japanese skewers, made from different parts of the chicken. The most common one is the chicken thigh and green onion ones, with a nice sweet soy sauce, but you can get plenty different ones in a yakitori restaurant.

In such restaurants, you will most of the time see the chef(s) in front of red hot charcoal, turning and dipping in sauce the skewers and fanning the embers constantly, so quite a spectacle.

Otherwise, from the beginning of summer, you can get some at convenience store for 100 yens. Quite a simple solution when you do not feel like cooking.

I find this recipe pretty simple, my only issue being the boning of the thigh. In Japan you can buy chicken thighs without the bones, but not here sadly.